Imaging telescope or lens:Selfmade 443/2048 Newtonian f4.6
Imaging camera:SBIG ST-10 XME
Mount:Sideres85
Guiding telescope or lens:Selfmade 443/2048 Newtonian f4.6
Guiding camera:SBIG ST-10 XME
Software:PixInsight
Filter:SBIG CFW-9
Accessories:Baader RCC-1 Coma Corrector, SBIG AO-8
Resolution: 1920x1080
Dates: Sept. 29, 2008, Sept. 23, 2009, Sept. 12, 2010, Sept. 26, 2011, Sept. 16, 2012, Oct. 5, 2013, Sept. 22, 2014, Sept. 12, 2015, Sept. 28, 2016, Nov. 1, 2016, Sept. 22, 2017
Frames: 386x300" -25C
Integration: 32.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.52 days
Avg. Moon phase: 6.06%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 2.00
Mean SQM: 21.40
Mean FWHM: 2.26
Astrometry.net job: 1870879
RA center: 83.636 degrees
DEC center: 22.016 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.343 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.080 degrees
Field radius: 0.105 degrees
Over the past 10 years I have worked to create my "astronomical lifework" at my remote observatory at the "Emberger Alm" in Austria. The same equipment (0.44 m Newtonian telescope, SBIG ST-10 XME, AO-8) was used all the time. Now eventually I have finished the "Crab Nebula one decade time-lapse movie". 386 single L (bin 1x1), R (bin 2x2), G (bin 2x2), B (bin 2x2) frames with a total integration time of 32 hours were combined with 10239 calibration frames (bias, darks, flats) into 10 color images, one for each year from 2008 to 2017. Strong high dynamic range processing and sharpening reveals the versatile movements of the white synchrotron radiation beside the normal expansion of the red filaments. The 10 color images were finally combined to an animated gif with a frame duration of 150 msec.
Please click at the image to see the animation in full detail!
A short video with music you can find at: https://vimeo.com/253674871
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